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Caveat viator

Let the traveler beware.

Saepe viatorem nova, non vetus, orbita fallit

Often it is the new track, not the old one, that deceives the traveler.

abbreviator.

One who abbreviates, abridges, or . shortens. 2. Eccles. law. An officer in the court of Rome appointed as assistant to the vice-chancellor for drawing up the Pope's briefs and reducing petitions, when granted, into proper form to be converted into papal bulls.

caveat viator

[Latin "let the traveler beware"]. The duty of a traveler on a highway to use due care to detect and avoid defects in the way.2. A formal notice or warning given by a party to a court or court officer requesting a suspension of proceedings <the decedent's daughter filed a caveat stating the facts on which her will contest is based>. 3. Under the Torrens system of land titles, a formal notice of an unregistered interest in land. 0 Once lodged with the register of deeds, this notice prevents the register from recording any dealing affecting the estate or the interest claimed. See TOR, RENS SYSTEM. - caveat, vb.

viator

1. APPARITOR (1). 2. A terminally or chronically ill life-insurance policyholder who sells the policy to a third party in return for a lump-sum cash payment equal to a percentage of the policy's face value

viatorial privilege

A privilege that overrides a person's duty to attend court in person and to testify.